Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOYEveryone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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Spring is the time of plans and projects.
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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
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We are asleep until we fall in Love!
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
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It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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If you love me as you say you do, she whispered, ‘make it so that I am at peace.
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